Leading up to Armistice day Antiwar.me held a social media giveaway on twitter and Instagram. The rules where simple. Post or tweet a short message of peace with the hashtag #WhyIamAntiwar and that was it. We had a number of great post and it was wonderful to see so many people participate, below are the winners of a few Peace now shirts and Red Poppy lapel pins from Antiwar.me and some crypto currency stickers from BTCemporium.store.
Instagram user @metalhedrey
Governments send young men and women to fight for them, to fight for their greed. Your sons, daughters, cousins, brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers sacrificed for what? For freedom? For security? So you can wait hours at some bearucratic office just to have your assets taken away but hey at least we’re not being bombed! We’re doing the bombing and that’s creating nothing but resentment towards us from around the world! They also dream up boogeymen and imminent threats to national security all while indiscriminately taking innocent civilian lives around the world. All with our hard earned money via tax dollars. I love my fellow countrymen deeply because we’re all being used but I also love the rest of mankind. That is why I feel this way. That is why my heart beats the way it does. That is #WhyIamAntiWar!
Instagram user @anarchypie
War as policy leaves us all scarred and broken, unable to heal.
#whyIamantiwar Because Hawkeye was right: “war is war and hell is hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.” Violence is the worst thing humans do to each other; war is violence on a mass scale. #antiwar#ArmisticeDay#Peace
— Al Masihi (@AndrewBlackmer) November 11, 2017
#WhyIamAntiwar Christ’s words (Matt.5-7): Blessed are the peacemakers. You shall not murder and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment. You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. Love your enemies.
— Nattie Roman (@TsarKastik) November 10, 2017
there is nothing worse than war. it is the largest-scale breakdown in communication and failure of negotiation. #peacemonger #WhyIamAntiwar
— Henok ☦️🏴 Elias (@EliasMediation) November 7, 2017
#WhyIamAntiwar: I am Anti-War because I have 3 kids that I want to grow up and finally know what PEACE really is.
— {{{SubwayWall}}} (@TheSubwayWall) October 26, 2017
#WhyIAmAntiwar
Because it’s a scam. So many corrupt people and corporations make money off war that I fear it will never end. We need to take care of our people, not kill people in other countries. It’s bad for them, and it’s bad for us. #PeaceMarch #PeaceSaturday https://t.co/Iayk40sAyF— HopeInTheUSA💖 (@HopeInTheUSA) November 11, 2017
#WhyIAmAntiwar People kill. People die. Not just willing participants, but unwilling casualties. War doesn’t make things better. It doesn’t end war. It leads to more, endless war.
— Jason Froehlich (@Fro_von_Frolik) November 11, 2017
#WhyIamAntiwar
War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing— Eric B (@EBUpdate) November 10, 2017
#WhyIamAntiwar Rich men sending poor boys to kill and get killed abroad. pic.twitter.com/FH2bbT6TKn
— Katalin Pota (@katalin_pota) November 10, 2017
#WhyIAmAntiWar – because the people paying me to fight are worth less then the people they want dead
— runningtoss (@alinqot) November 8, 2017
#WhyIamAntiwar
Why war when you can #peace
Why kill when you can #love— Aimée Lesieutre (@bikersites) November 3, 2017
#WhyIAmAntiWar A great General doesn’t declare war, he prevents it.
— Jim Hopper (@TheGeneral42069) November 1, 2017
War is legalized murder and only benefits the greedy bloodthirsty oligarchs. Humans are capable of being peaceful. #WhyIAmAntiWar
— NOYB (@noyb2016) October 31, 2017
War, a profitable criminal enterprise, rarely investigated until enough time has passed that no one is prosecuted. The greed of the shareholders has stripped democracy naked and ruined countless lives and civilisations. The cost is borne by those least culpable.#WhyIAmAntiwar
— Toussaint (@Serec_Fourmyle) October 31, 2017
#WhyIamAntiwar No Iranian or Russian destroyed the American economy in 2008 and cratered the real estate values in my town.
— Stanley Rogouski (@stanleyrogouski) October 27, 2017
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No explanation needed. Why are you pro-war?— Gizzter McFace (@gizzface22) October 27, 2017
#WhyIAmAntiWar As children we are taught violence never solves anything.
— Tom Donovan (@Pickle_Juice2) October 26, 2017
Thank you to everyone who participated, you don’t need to stop posting about #WhyIamAntiwar just because we don’t have a current giveaway or contest. Please follow @antiwarcom on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, we also have a new Facebook group (Search Antiwar.me) if you would like to share your thoughts and get involved in the conversations, join us in that group here.
